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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!gatech!news.sprintlink.net!EU.net!news.eunet.fi!news.muncca.fi!count From: count@snafu.muncca.fi (Bror 'Count' Heinola) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0.5-A FTP install problem Date: 3 Jun 1995 18:42:39 GMT Organization: Muncca UNIX (technical mismanagement) Lines: 33 Message-ID: <3qqaev$jbg@wizard.muncca.fi> References: <marcus.94.00CEA336@ccelab.iastate.edu> <3qj0c1$ak0@agate.berkeley.edu> <3qke9a$n8v@wizard.muncca.fi> <3qlrip$n8a@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: snafu.muncca.fi Keywords: 2.0.5 ALPHA FTP install In article <3qlrip$n8a@agate.berkeley.edu>, Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@violet.berkeley.edu> wrote: >In article <3qke9a$n8v@wizard.muncca.fi>, >Bror 'Count' Heinola <count@snafu.muncca.fi> wrote: >> I had to bump ftp.funet.fi mirror from daily to hourly because >> I couldn't get anything out...Still can't, connection is breaking >> up all the time. :( >> .. >> How about them dedicated mirroring accounts? Should help somewhat. > >Huh? > >I don't see how a dedicated account is going to save your connections >from breaking. I'm afraid that TCP/IP is fairly democratic, and anon >users get killed just as readily as non-anon users.. :-) No, it doesn't save them from breaking, but it makes it easier to get *in* on the first try :-) >In any case, your site is already in the mirror permissions list for >fast-track access to the bits but it's clearly, as I said, not going to >help you get around network instability problems! Duh, change your backbone service :) -- Bror 'Count' Heinola # E-mail: # Network admin of muncca.fi Pengerkatu 13b A5 # count@snafu.muncca.fi # Count in IRC 00530 HELSINKI # count@key.hole.fi # "Is that lemon in your tea?" Tel: +358-0-766-041 # ...free your mind... # "No, s'lime."